jsmeaton

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by jsmeaton 10mo ago
Stackoverflow started failing when Jeff left. While he had a big hand in the whole mantra of being more of a Wiki than just Q&A, I feel his sense of community wouldn’t have let it get so bad. Then all of the OG engineers left (I hope Ni
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by jsmeaton 11mo ago
Is there a way to determine if a particular connection is falling back to DERP today? I have a pretty basic setup with tailscale setup on an Apple TV behind a bunch of UniFi devices and occasionally tunnelled traffic is incredibly slow. Won
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by jsmeaton 11mo ago
Guess where we host nexus..
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by jsmeaton 1y ago
https://github.com/lra/mackup?tab=readme-ov-file#warning Perhaps referencing this behaviour where preference files can no longer be symlinks? > Mackup does not work correctly in macOS Sonoma and all later versions,
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by jsmeaton 1y ago
Astral folks that are around - there seems to be a bit of confusion in the product page that the blog post makes a little more clear. > The next step in Python packaging The headline is the confusing bit I think - "oh no, another to
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by jsmeaton 1y ago
I've been wondering where the commercial service would come in and this sounds like just the right product that aligns with what you're already doing and serves a real need. Setting up scalable private registries for python is a
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by jsmeaton 1y ago
Do you have an example of this?
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by jsmeaton 1y ago
What issues are you having with uvx? It replaces tools like pipx that set up implicit venvs to run specific tools. Works great for me.
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by jsmeaton 1y ago
Perceived only at this stage, though the kind of volume we’re looking at is 10s to 100s of millions of jobs per day. https://github.com/riverqueue/river/issues/746 talks about some of the same things you ment
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by jsmeaton 1y ago
Cloudtasks are excellent and I’ve been wanting something similar for years. I’ve been occasionally hacking away at a proof of concept built on riverqueue but have eased off for a while due to performance issues obvious with non-partitioned
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by jsmeaton 1y ago
The “hello Bluey” at the end gets me every time.
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
I used to have the same setup - a global tools venv with some useful dependencies. Uv takes the position that since it’s so fast to install dependencies and create environments, you don’t maintain a global venv. uvx ruff file.py Will
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
Agree. Rounding most of the advice to providing an executive summary is about right. If you’re not fully confident and think an experiment is worth while, lead with that, and provide assurances there are mitigations in place or a decision i
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
I often give similar advice to colleagues that ask me for pointers on getting their recommendations approved. "Make it as easy as possible for them to say yes" Don't dump 14 paragraphs in front of someone expecting them to ge
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
They’re being attacked both for refusing to work with gangs or for working with a rival gang.
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
What I was hoping to be able to do was run our existing cpython project on graal to try and benefit from whatever speedups the jvm (or, if possible, compiling to a native module) would provide, rather than build with the jvm specifically in
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
Appreciate the further details, thanks! This is a huge undertaking, good luck, and I'll be checking back in here and there.
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
Tried to use graalvm (interpreter) to run a fairly large project at my $dayjob$ and ran into a few issues right away. - Maturin doesn't support the graal interpreter, so no Py03 packages - uv doesn't seem to run, as `fork` a
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
Rye was started by Armin as a collection of existing tools (mostly) with a frontend similar to cargo. Then Astral came out with uv which aims to be a frontend into a collection of their own tools similar to cargo. Armin and Astral agreed fo
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
This is what jumped out to me reading this article too - unashamedly admitting to having gaps in knowledge that some others might take for granted. Bucketing some of those gaps as “probably useful but not to me right now” is also great. It
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
You don’t think if the company behind GitHub went all-in on mercurial that might have emerged as the winner? There were plenty of companies using either. Git wasn’t the only distributed game in town. I definitely think GitHub had a lot to d
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
Once. Never again.
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
It doesn’t work with psycopg or many other libraries that use c extensions. That’s the main reason.
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
Even better, if your testing framework supports it, mark the test as expecting failure in your regression commit, then remove the xfail in the commit that fixes the bug.
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
No, which is why I think there has been less support for the (previous) OSS company than some other projects. Redis labs effectively became the defacto owner of the project later down the line when Antirez joined them. They inherited the pr
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
In this case that’s true and why I said I don’t think it applies here. Typically it does though. Open source services are in a weird spot. They spend tonnes of money developing it and big providers are able to cannibalise as soon as somethi
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
I’m usually pretty ambivalent when a company decides to move to a license like BUSL. Sure it’s not “free” - but practically it only affects the likes of AWS from freeloading while making extraordinary profits. Especially true when a given c
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
Ahh - side deal licensing. “Redis will continue to support its vast partner ecosystem – including managed service providers and system integrators – with exclusive access to all future releases, updates, and features developed and delivered
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by jsmeaton 2y ago
Fully on board, but no mention if they’ll be releasing the source used to run Redis on Azure. Do they have an exemption? A separate license? On one hand I could see why Microsoft would back the original project, since they likely don’t want
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by jsmeaton 3y ago
> feels like busy work just so management can “see” progress Lot's of people feel like this. I usually come at it a different way - we're trying to estimate effort to see if we want to attempt building it in the first place .

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